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How long before Octane will use AMD cards?
Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2014 10:18 am
by tomerk
Hi Guys.
I`m very glad that you created Modo plugin !
Thank you very much for that, but I have problem. I have AMD cards on my PC so it is question: Will you create Octane for AMD cards? And how long will it take?
Re: How long before Octane will use AMD cards?
Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2014 10:54 pm
by UnCommonGrafx
No.
Will ati make cards for octane?
No, because they would have to pay their nemesis for the privilege.
Octane runs on cuda; cuda is NVidia; if you want octane, get a card that has the NVidia/cuda mojo.
Will you update to another card that is not ATI?
Yes, if you want to run Octane.
Re: How long before Octane will use AMD cards?
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 10:30 pm
by grimm
The short answer is no, not until AMD fixes the drivers for their cards at least. Even Blender devs have had to drop AMD support because their drivers are so bad. Lately it appears that AMD has improved the divers a little but they still do not work for large and complex kernels like the ones Octane uses. Even if they get the drivers working it's going to take a lot of work to convert Octane's CUDA kernels to OpenCL kernels, so it's going to be awhile.
Jason
Re: How long before Octane will use AMD cards?
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 11:14 am
by tomerk
Thank you guys for replay.
I don`t think I will be able to change my 2 cards... soon. So I will have to wait for AMD to change its drivers.